Chapter 1AP Human Vocab

Question 1

The exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude

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Absolute Location

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Classification of a country or region, that has wealth, higher education levels,more advanced technologies, many resources, strong militaries,and powerful allies

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Core

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The number of things, objects, and people in a specific area

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Density

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A Principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another the less interaction it will have

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Distance Decay

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To arrange within a given space

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Distribute

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The relationships between living and their environments

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Ecological Perspective

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The idea that human behavior is strong affected, controlled, or determined by the physical environment

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Environmental Determinism

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An area that has one or more shared traits

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Formal Region

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A function around a focal point

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Functional Region

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A type of region that reflects peoples feelings and attitudes about a place

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Perceptual Region

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The expansion of economic,cultural, and political processes

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Globalization

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The longer the journey is the more the cost,effort, and time

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Friction of Distance

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The study of processes that have shape how humans understand,use, and altar the Earth

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Human Geography

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The position that a point or objects occupies on Earth

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Location

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A representation of reality that presents significant features or relationships in a generalized form

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A Model

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Internalized representations of portions of Earth’s Surface

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Mental Map

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A focal point

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Node

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The way things are arranged in a particular space

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Pattern

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A country or region that has less wealth, lower education, and a unstable government

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Periphery

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Study of natural processes and distribution of features in the environment such as landforms, plants, animals, soil, and climate

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Physical Geography

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A location on Earth that is distinguished by its physical and human characteristics

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Place

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Theory of human environment interactions

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Possiblilism

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An area of Earth’s Surface with certain characteristics that make it cohesive yet distinct from other areas

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Region

Question 9

A description of where a place relation to other places or features

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Relative Location

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The area of the world being studied

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Scale

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(Middle Class) That has qualities of both core and Periphery areas

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Semi-Periphery

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A place's absolute location

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Site

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Location of a place in relation to other places or its surrounding features

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Situation

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The area between 2 or more things

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Space

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Perspective on how people live on Earth

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Spatial Perspective

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The use o Earth's land and natural resources( Renewable)

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Sustainability

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Development that meets the needs of the present

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Sustainable Development

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(Cellphone) Allowed humans to travel and communicate over long distances more quickly and easily)

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Time-Space Compression

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Type of region that reflects on peoples feelings and attitudes about a place

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Vernacular Region

Question 20

Theory describing spatial and functional relationships

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World System Theory

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Distance that be measured (Yards, Feet, Inches)

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Absolute Distance

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The cardinals ( North, West, East, South)

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Absolute Direction

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A person who makes maps

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Cartographer

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A computer system that collects data for analysis

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GIS

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An official count of people in a defined area( like a state)

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Census

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A network of satellites that can pinpoint the exact location

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GPS

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The relationship of the size of the map, to the size of the area

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Map Scale

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Involving data that can be measured by numbers

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Quantitative

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Involving data that is descriptive

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Qaulitative

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A map that focuses on the location of places

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Reference Map

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Distance determined in relation to other places

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Relative Distance

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Direction based on a person's perspective(Right, Up, Down, Left)

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Relative Direction

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Collecting or Analyzing Data

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Remote Sensing

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Any Map that focuses on more or more variable

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Thematic Map

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The representations of Earth's Surface to show natural and human- made features

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Topography